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    People gather halfway through the Andy Warhol exhibition, at The Portland Art Museum, in front of a looping short film of Warhol eating a burger ending with “I’m Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a burger” (, n.d.). The exhibition, provided by the Jordan Schnitzer family, is the largest collection of Warhol’s work to ever be on display (Portland Art Museum, n.d.). I will be evaluating the Warhol exhibition experience using Falk and Dierking’s Interactive Experience Model (IEM). IEM entails

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    better known to the public, as Andy Warhol was an American Pop artist born in 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. As a child he took classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and he won several awards for drawings he produced in high school. He is known as a leading figure in the visual arts movement known as Pop Art. Warhol graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949 getting a Bachelor in Fine Arts in pictorial design, he then moved to New York City . Warhol is famously known for his thirty-two

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    Artists name, year of birth, country of birth, and textbook page where the artist is mentioned. - Andy Warhol, born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., and page 508. 2. Complete website where you found information about the artist. -http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875#related-video-gallery 3. What is his/her primary media? -He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred

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    The use of openness operates as a link to the company seeming ‘open:’ open to diversity, gay rights, transgender rights, etc. The viewer also gets pulled back into time by the use of Andy Warhol’s piece and the sight of Elvis. Using Elvis effectively appeals to the history technique of “the need to belong takes a subtler form of offering the product as a way to become part of a time in the past the audience might look back to with nostalgia”

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    Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Brown, 2015). When he was at the age of 8 he contracted Chorea, a disease that causes involuntary, unpredictable body movements, so Warhol was confined to bed. During his recovery he was taught to draw by his mother (Brown, 2015). He developed a love for drawing, and he started to draw in his spare time. As soon as he got healthy he decided to take up photography. He went on to graduate high school and enroll in Carnegie Institute

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    Andy Warhol was a Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author. Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, what we known as Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages in the community of Pittsburgh. Growing up, Andy was very intelligent and creative. By the age of eight years old Andy came down with rheumatic an abnormally high body temperature that caused

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    Andy Warhol was an icon. he is famous for his art. he was born 8-6-1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. he died 2-22-1978 in new york city, new york. he was a gay man. he became extremely famous because of his pop art. his studio ,The Factory, was a place where drag queens, playwrights, celebrities, distinguished intellectuals and wealthy patrons. he created pop art. he used music hand drawing. he is called the founding father of the pop art movement. he became the one of the most successful illustrators

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    2017 Viewed at modern art museum of Fort Worth (February 19th, 2017) Twenty-Five Colored Marilyn’s As a student of art, going to an art museum is the best way to completely encounter a masterpiece. Just by looking a sculpture or a painting, we cannot fully experience the work of art. I went to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This museum is located at Darnell street, Fort Worth. It was big, welcoming and peaceful museum. I went to the museum on Sunday and the entrance

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    famous work of art by Andy Warhol. The Marilyn Diptych was made in 1962, immediately after the actress’s death, of oil, acrylic, and silkscreen on enamel canvas. Although it looks like this piece is all cohesive, it is made of two separate panels, each being 6’-10”x 4’-9”. Warhol used the method of printing from a silkscreen from a photograph of Monroe because it is easy to mass produce the fifty different versions of her face. The Marilyn Diptych (Figure 1) by Andy Warhol appears to be depthless

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    Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement”. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker, but, his big break was in 1949, when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola, he dropped the “a” when his

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